Year: 2015

I was honored to be asked to speak on the Eat Sleep Code podcast by Telerik’s Ed Charbeneau on the topic of machine learning. We talked about what machine learning is, what it can do, and how it works. Then we chatted about Azure Machine Learning specifically and how to use Azure Machine Learning Studio. …

I was honored to deliver the opening keynote at ML Conf Atlanta on September 18, 2015. The entire event was recorded and is available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrbAIdPI69PjHPGmEQwMYMPfN0j-d9Ij5. I spoke on my lie detector work. Using the EPOC+ headset from Emotiv, I captured EEG (brainwave) data from people when they were telling the truth and when they…

You can do some amazing work with machine learning. Predict how many crimes will occur in a city in a timeframe, based on historical data. Identify signs of diabetic retinopathy in eye images to help diagnose the disease in areas with limited access to doctors. Discover correlations between driving patterns and the need for car…

In the first episode of the new Channel9 show Let’s Dev This, I walk through building a Hogwarts Sorting Hat. A Windows Phone 8.1 app in a pocket in the hat uses an accelerometer to pick the house and text-to-speech to yell out the house name. Currently, the trigger is touching a button, but I…

When getting started with Azure Machine Learning, the hardest part for many developers is staring down the list of Azure machine learning algorithms (there are currently 25 of them) and trying to figure out which one would work best. In this blog post, I will provide some resources for helping you choose the right algorithm. …

I have heard Joseph Sirosh tell this story at multiple conferences, and I LOVE IT. If you’re into the Internet of Things/big data/analytics, take 8.5 minutes and watch it right now – you won’t regret it. Awesome story. Quick summary: Cows go into heat for a very short window (12-18 hours every 21 days, often…

I was very honored to have been asked to be on another episode of David Giard’s webcast Technology & Friends. In this episode, we discussed my latest project: using a headset from Emotiv which reads EEG waves from your brain and sending that data into Azure Machine Learning to do lie detection (attempt to predict…

The Internet of Your Things: From Oil Pipelines to Data Pipelines The Microsoft Global Energy Forum 2015 was held on Wed April 22, 2015 in Houston, TX. This conference hosted over 400 business and technology leaders in the oil & gas domain. I was honored to have written code and presented at the opening keynote…